M.L. Friedline

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library As increasing numbers of transgender, gender diverse, and queer youths come out to their friends, families and communities, their rights to express their identities in public life have become the sub....

...OMG didn't realize at first (due to paywall) that this was about the recent deMayo study that showed that trans kids' gender identities were just as stable as cis kids'! (& that shifts were largely to nonbinary IDs). here's the study: doi.org/10.1111/mono...

"Multiple international...groups have already described the war as genocidal, but reports from two of Israel-Palestine’s most respected human rights organisations is likely to add to pressure for action."

One can hope anyway...

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

i really didn’t realize how radical of an idea it was to believe that no one deserves to die from ecological disaster

not red voters
not nonvoters
not blue voters in red states

and definitely not fucking eight year old little girls

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

If you're marching tomorrow show us your signs! And if you want to march but aren't sure where, find a protest near you here. There are a LOT. www.nokings.org

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy [Gorski, Philip S., Perry, Samuel L., Tisby, Jemar] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

You might also check out these books:
www.amazon.com/Flag-Cross-C...

www.amazon.com/American-Ido...

African religions and philosophy : Mbiti, John S : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A Doubleday Anchor book.

Done. Also, I just remembered this book, which is accessible via the internet archive: archive.org/details/afri...

Also, if you don't have access via the link, I can PM you a pdf

The African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho: implications for research on morality In this article we provide a theoretical reconstruction of sub‐Saharan ethics that we argue is a strong competitor to typical Western approaches to morality. According to our African moral theory,...

I've assigned this article on Ubuntu and ethics in a gen Ed class I teach called "the good life". My students respond to it really well. I'm not sure if it's exactly what you are looking for, but it would be worth mining the bibliography for further resources:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So I can't help but notice that all this brouhaha about single sex spaces and trans exclusion from them is eliding the axiom underlying the panic.

Namely: taking the normalization of men's violence against women as a given that cannot be meaningfully ameliorated except through sex-segregation.

According to a citation in an article I read, it's in the later works volume 11, pg 534

I don't own that volume so can't check it myself

1. Humanities never had anywhere near as much to lose

2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow

3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold

OK, a roundup response to the "they won't follow the court orders" people.

First of all, you're wrong! The administration *is* following many of the court orders.

What's more, they're showing their understanding of the validity of court orders by seeking stays pending appeal when they lose.

In my years as a civil rights lawyer, I’ve never seen a more clear cut First Amendment violation, or a more flagrant government declaration of intent to violate blackletter law. Part of the point here is to dare the courts to uphold longstanding precedent.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Classical Pragmatist Roots and Contemporary Fruits The Boston area is the birthplace of American Pragmatism. Charles Peirce was born in Cambridge, and William James spent much of his career teaching at Harvard. Both were shaped by the insights of the proto-pragmatism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Furthermore, Alain Locke and W.E.B Du Bois were both students of James who went on to make important pragmatism-inflected contributions to American and African-American thought and specifically influenced the Harlem Renaissance. The classical Pragmatists developed robust theories of psychology (especially James’ theories of affect and emotion) and experience (especially Peirce’s insights into truth, goodness, and beauty through empirical inquiry). We invite papers that consider how the insights of the classical pragmatists can help us think through and address contemporary issues, including: Navigating our current information ecosystem and resisting misinformation Considerations of epistemic responsibility Theories of affect and emotion, especially as it relates to knowledge, motivation and breaking down the thinking/feeling binary. Questions of normativity in thought and action Approaches to learning through experience and experimentation Feminist and Womanist thought, especially ethics and epistemology

Calling all pragmatists! 2 more days to submit a proposal to the pragmatism and empiricism unit of AAR. Check out our CFP and submit proposals here papers.aarweb.org/group/14974

We are also co-sponsoring a session on revisiting personalism: in Boston and beyond papers.aarweb.org/group/15136

Classical Pragmatist Roots and Contemporary Fruits The Boston area is the birthplace of American Pragmatism. Charles Peirce was born in Cambridge, and William James spent much of his career teaching at Harvard. Both were shaped by the insights of the proto-pragmatism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Furthermore, Alain Locke and W.E.B Du Bois were both students of James who went on to make important pragmatism-inflected contributions to American and African-American thought and specifically influenced the Harlem Renaissance. The classical Pragmatists developed robust theories of psychology (especially James’ theories of affect and emotion) and experience (especially Peirce’s insights into truth, goodness, and beauty through empirical inquiry). We invite papers that consider how the insights of the classical pragmatists can help us think through and address contemporary issues, including: Navigating our current information ecosystem and resisting misinformation Considerations of epistemic responsibility Theories of affect and emotion, especially as it relates to knowledge, motivation and breaking down the thinking/feeling binary. Questions of normativity in thought and action Approaches to learning through experience and experimentation Feminist and Womanist thought, especially ethics and epistemology

Calling all pragmatists! 2 more days to submit a proposal to the pragmatism and empiricism unit of AAR. Check out our CFP and submit proposals here papers.aarweb.org/group/14974

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

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It's rough right now!

A couple books I plan to re-read:
-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
-Kelly Hayes and Miriam Kaba, Let this radicalize you

A couple books I haven't yet read, but want to:
-Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Solidarity
-Andrea Ritchie, Practicing New Worlds

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here

Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

In changing their opinion, most participants' experiences followed a general process of (1) distancing from their ideological community, (2) a desire to seek out information, leading to (3) a gradual or epiphanic realization that solidified their shift in opinion.

Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com.

Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇

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bell hooks All About Love is worth a read imo. She starts with Erich Fromm's definition, but then uses the rest of the book to analyze different dimensions of love. It's not the BEST philosophical treatment of love, but offers some useful analysis and insights.